Request for Tender
About this opportunity:
WA Primary Health Alliance (WAPHA) is seeking the services of an organisation to establish a Youth Enhanced Service (YES) Program to provide clinical treatment (including medication management – prescribing, monitoring, education) and associated support directed towards functional recovery to young people aged 12-25 years who meet the criteria for Stage 1b-2 in the service model and their families.
This will be achieved through the use of:
- Developmentally appropriate multi-dimensional (transdiagnostic) assessments.
- Personalised treatment planning.
- Coordinated provision of acceptable stage-specific multi-faceted clinical treatments, psychological and social interventions and other supports with;
- Care coordination; and
- Routine outcome monitoring aligned, accordingly.
The contractor is required to deliver the activity based on a co-developed local instance of the YES Model.
This must enable the sustainable provision of all essential elements of the YES model either directly or through formal partnerships.
Queries and responses
Please raise all queries via email to 2024-38@wapha.org.au and WAPHA will publish responses on this webpage.
Submissions
Please submit the completed submission form/s, budget, non-conformance schedule and other attachments you wish to submit as part of your application to 2024-38@wapha.org.au.
Tender Closing Date is 19 November 2024 at 2:00PM (AWST).
Submission is to be no larger than 20MB.
2024-38
Request Documents:
- Part A – Request information and background (read and keep)
- Part B – Conditions of Request (read and keep)
- Part C – Draft Agreement Documents – Consisting of the following attachments:
- Service Agreement (read and keep)
- Service Agreement – Activity Schedule (read and keep)
- Orygen YES Model Core Component Underpinning Principles (read and keep)
- Youth Mental Health Service Model and Approaches – Considerations for Primary Care (read and keep)
- Part D – Submission – Consisting of the following attachments:
- Submission Form (complete and submit)
- Non-Conformance Schedule (complete and submit if required)
- Budget Template (complete and submit)
Watch the tender briefing
Please check the webpage regularly for any updates in the Q&A section.
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No. This is a separate, standalone service which once established should be functionally integrated with local headspace centres, first/early episode services, other relevant PHN commissioned services (in situ and virtual) and state-funded adolescent and/or youth mental health and AOD services and teams.
Yes, per above.
The approach we use to select locations is multiple criteria decision analysis undertaken within a socio-technical framework. This enables us to combine technical analysis and local knowledge from our staff with relevant place-based knowledge and other key informants. It means we use one common, standardised, and structured approach to evaluate and compare different options based on multiple criteria. It’s particularly useful when decisions involve complex and conflicting factors. The first step is to identify the essential criteria – the various factors that are important for the decision. The YES model has a clear set of criteria that need to be met, in practice. These include demand and supply side dependencies (demography, epidemiology and in situ service capacity and capabilities). We then weight, adjust, and rank the technical estimates using on the ground intelligence, examine the trade-offs in a decision conference (sometimes it requires several), and choose the location option that best meets the overall objectives considering all criteria.
Since 2016/17 Primary Health Networks (PHN’s) have been funded to develop regional service models for young people presenting with severe and complex mental health issues known as Youth Enhanced Services (YES). The Australian Government funds Orygen, the National Centre for Excellence in Youth Mental Health, to provide expert advice and guidance to PHN’s to support this work. Orygen has developed the document Youth Enhanced Service model – Core components and underpinning principles. Melbourne: Orygen; 2021 to support this work.